Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1912 — FEEL PULSE AROUND WORLD [ARTICLE]

FEEL PULSE AROUND WORLD

Harvard University Physician* With New Instrument Get "Long Distance” Heart Beat*. Cambridge, Mass. —That it is possible for a physician to note the heart beats of a patient who may be on the other side of the world is the assertion of Dr. Percy E. Brown of the Harvard Medical school. An instrument devised for that purpose has been installed in the Harvard Medical school. Doctor Brown says: “With the proper attachments the heart beats could be registered around the world. All the patient has to do is to place the hands in warm salt water and the electric current, with the hands the positive and negative poles, is carried by wires to the instrument, which shows the heart beats.” .